Trump Is Planning Executive Order To Bail from NAFTA

President Donald Trump has indicated that he has a plan for the North American Free Trade Agreement, and one thing seems certain: NAFTA will not remain the same deal that it has been for the last 23 years.

In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Saturday, Trump said he had every intention of terminating the agreement with Canada and Mexico, before leaders of both countries contacted him about it. The president said that he got “very nice” calls from Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian prime minister of Justin Trudeau asking him to negotiate with them.

He said he told them that he would. It looks like Trump is going to put some of his deal-making skills to work on the agreement.

The Hill reported that Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown, a NAFTA critic, planned to give Trump a four-point plan to overhaul the agreement today.

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Trump signed an executive order Saturday for a study to determine whether the U.S. was being treated fairly by its trading partners and the 164-nation World Trade Organization, Newsmax reported. Moreover, Politico reported last Wednesday that unidentified White House officials said the president was preparing an executive order that could pull the U.S. out of the trade deal.

It appears there are only two choices: renegotiate or terminate.

A free trade agreement is great if all of the countries involved play fairly. However, the U.S. has suffered because of bad trade deals since the agreement was enacted, and it looks like Trump is going to take care of it — one way or another.